Vacation
Event 26: The Twelve Days of Christmas
'There are people who are adorable once you get to know them,' Peach mused, 'and there are others who are adorable until you get to know them. Afterwards, they're just annoying.'
The person in question sat smiling smugly upon her window. "Hi!" The little fairy greeted cheerfully. She was small, tiny enough to fit in the palm of Peach's hand. She donned a mushroom on her head and shiny wings on her back.
"Hello," Peach greeted, she sincerely hoped that the fairy would not take to sitting on her shoulder and talking to her ear in that little high pitched voice today. If she did, the princess would do her best to politely ask the fairy to either get off or be quiet, but the dear fairy was still a tiny fragile creature and though she could be annoying, she could also melt almost anyone's heart with her ultimate miniature cuteness.
"You look pensive today..."
"I do?"
"What are you thinking of?" Aside being both cute and annoying, the fairy was rather nosy.
"Nothing..."
"Of Bowser maybe?" She was also a fan of the Koopa King, though Bowser very much disliked the annoying little fairy, or bug as he called her.
"Not really..." Quite frankly, Peach was thinking about her nosy little stalker and of nothing else at the moment.
"On the first day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, a very confused Peach!" The fairy's high pitch voice wasn't exactly easy on the ears when she was talking and when she was singing it could make anyone cringe. It was puzzling how such a tiny creature was capable of producing so much noise.
"I'm not confused," before Peach could further inquire why her fairy friend thought she was confused, the computer beeped announcing the incoming email on Peach's automatic program.
"You know someone told me you shouldn't stay logged in all the time and you shouldn't use those remember me things because it might not be safe," the fairy rambled.
"Look, Keres and Skyri sent pictures from their vacation!" At Costa Del Sol, those two were playing at the beach under the hot sun while everyone the Mushroom Kingdom was three feet deep in snow.
"Let me see!" The fairy flew at the monitor, stopping just on time to avoid hitting it.
"You shouldn't get so close to the screen," Peach advised.
"On the second day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" The fairy sang.
Peach blinked, "these pictures are from Keres and Skyri, Bowser didn't send them."
The fairy grinned, "gotcha!"
"What... That's..." Before Peach could put up an argument and explain the accidental play on words about her so called true love, a very strange carol filled the room. The princess opened the door to find three yoshis singing in the hall. Yoshi, Mario's green friend was one of them, Yoshi's main racing rival, Boshi, was also there, wearing his trademark shades and spiked bracelets. The third caroler was a pink female yoshi with a blue bow on her head. "That was very nice, thank you!" Though all they sang was the word 'yoshi' over and over, they still managed to sound cute and Peach really did appreciate the thought of bringing her a carol.
"On the third day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" The fairy sang and that brought questions from the yoshis, which Peach was fortunately able to dismiss by explaining that the fairy was just being random and silly.
As the afternoon continued to roll, Mario, Luigi and Daisy arrived, then it was time for Peach to present the cakes she had backed earlier. One of them was chocolate, the other vanilla, another strawberry and the last was a cheese cake. Peach had a slice of strawberry, Daisy preferred the cheese cake, Luigi the chocolate, the fairy the vanilla and the yoshis and Mario had a slice of each, finishing what everyone else had left unfinished.
Though Mario and the three yoshis ate the most, it was still impressive to watch the fairy eat an entire normal sized slice of cake. It could be argued that she ate the most, since she was smaller thus making that one slice of cake bigger than her.
"On the forth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" The odd song brought odd stares from the new guests, but again, it was quickly dismissed.
After everyone went home for the evening, save for the fairy who insisted on following Peach and chattering her little head off, the princess and the bug, I mean fairy, came across a very worried Toadsworth on the hall while they headed back to Peach's room. The old mushroom was muttering something about his worries, "the ball, the fireworks, the food, the guests, the gifts!"
While Peach tried to calm Toadsworth and assure him that all the details concerning the upcoming party were already taking care of, and did not require going over them every five minutes until the event took place, the fairy occupied herself with singing. "On the fifth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" To the odd looks from the princess and the elderly mushroom, the fairy replied with, "because everyone knows that these are not just worries, they are 'Toadsworth worries' and that makes them special! Besides, we all know the Koopa family is actually invited this time so it fits."
Toadsworth didn't get it; Peach did, but decided not to explain what the fairy was referring to. Toadworth already knew about the special royal guests, and that was all he needed to know, that the Koopa family was coming, any extra hidden message that the fairy was trying to communicate with her song would remain hidden.
After Peach managed to calm Toadsworth, she returned to her room along with the fairy and soon after received a delivery. It was a box wrapped in shiny pink paper, with a golden ribbon tied around it. Though it had no card, Peach had a pretty good idea who it was from and why it couldn't have a card. The box contained six fancy chocolate bonbons, each one the size of a baseball.
Cue more high pitched singing, "on the sixth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!"
"You know, I was the one who made those cakes," Peach pointed out.
"I know but I need four of something for this song I'm composing." The fairy smiled, pleased with the song's progress so far.
As time passed, the sun sunk in the horizon and Peach finally asked, "aren't you going home?"
"Nope, I'm staying here for a sleepover," the fairy had neglected to mention that earlier.
"What about Wendy?" Peach asked.
"She already knows," the fairy had broken the rules of her tribe and gotten to close to the beings of the outside world, mushroom people, yoshis, koopas, every living creature that wasn't a fairy was a being of the outside world to them. Because of that, she was kicked out of the fairy kingdom in fear that she may reveal its location to the wrong person.
The fairy had started living with Peach, who kindly took her in, and later with Wendy who decided that she liked having the fairy sit on her head like an extra accessory to compliment her bow. Peach had absolutely no objection in letting the fairy go and recovering her peace and quiet. The fairy's name was a screeching sound that could not be pronounced by humans or koopas, thus she adopted the name Bowser gave her, 'Bug'.
Peach sighed; she didn't have the heart to kick Bug out. She looked out the window at the first seven stars that had appeared in the sky, the seven legendary stars of the Star Road, and had a moment of peaceful silence until Bug sang again. "On the seventh day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!"
Immediately after Bug ended her song, the silence didn't have time to fully settle in before it disappeared again with the arrival of eight hyper koopalings bringing presents for Peach. They had each brought a differently colored jewel in pink, red, blue, cyan, yellow, orange, purple and white.
"On the eight day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, eight rainbow jewels, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadsworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" Several voices asking why Peach was confused soon followed.
After the chaotic yet fun visit had ended and the koopalings had gone home, Parakarry arrived with a last minute delivery. He brought nine precious ornaments, made by high standing people from several other kingdoms. Those ornaments would be expected to be displayed on the Christmas three located at the main ballroom during the upcoming party. Of course Peach had to help decide where exactly each one would go.
"On the ninth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, nine glitter balls, eight rainbow jewels, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!"
"These glitter balls, I mean the Christmas decorations came from all over the world, they're not from my true love," Peach tried to reason with Bug.
But the fairy shook her little head. "Don't hold back my creativity, I'm going to write down all of this and give it to Ludwig since everyone knows he's a musical genius." Ludwig had better get his magnifying glass ready for Bug's tiny handwriting, because she wasn't planning to leave him alone until he read her lyrics when she finished them and composed a lovely symphony to go along with them.
The night progressed and Peach took a moment to feed her fish, which thankfully only needed to be fed once a day.
"There's ten of them! On the tenth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, ten swimming fish, nine glitter balls, eight rainbow jewels, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!" By now Peach had learned to simply roll her eyes and ignore Bug's silly song.
After playing some video games with Bug, who was pretty good despite being so small that a normal controller was like a DDR pad for her, the princess and the fairy finally went to sleep.
It wasn't until the following morning that Peach was woken up with the continuation of Bug's song, and the sight of snow. "On the eleventh day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, eleven snow flakes, ten swimming fish, nine glitter balls, eight rainbow jewels, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very confused Peach!"
Peach tried to fall asleep again, but she could not. Thus she got up, finished up her morning activities and left her room to find Bowser waiting in the hall with a dozen pink roses.
"That's it, the ending for my song!" Bug cheered. "I think I'll change that first day verse too, here goes. On the twelfth day of Christmas your true love gave to thee, twelve pink roses, eleven snow flakes, ten swimming fish, nine glitter balls, eight rainbow jewels, seven shiny stars, six chocolate bonbons, five Toadworth worries, four yummy cakes, three yoshis singing, two dancing koopas and a very in love Peach!"
End of Event 26
Disclaimer, I don't own Mario or Final Fantasy VII (where Costa Del Sol is from). Bug is another of my regular OC, who has finally been named and was otherwise known simply as the mushroom fairy in the past. The idea of making her real name impossible to pronounce for beings not of her kind came from the scene where Geno introduces himself in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.